Re: How you doin'? : Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:17 pm  

This thread has lead to me looking back at previous league tables and the 2009 table was mental!



2 teams to be relegated.

Doncaster finished bottom (11th) on 8pts.

Toulouse finished 10th on 30pts, bit of a gap there! Next to bottom but were exempt from relegation because they were... erm... French I guess?

Leigh, Batley and Gateshead all finished on 32pts (we had the worst points difference). Obviously Gateshead's late surge in form was due to them buying a load of Aussies it turned out they didn't actually have any money to pay hence them going down and us being let off the hook.

We were 'relegated' with a record of 9 wins and 11 losses. 45 % win rate isn't great but in no other season would it be anything like relegation form.

Batley actually won less games than us but 2 draws (both against Gateshead) meant they finished level on pts.

Sheffield actually only won 2 more games than us. (We won 9 lost 11, they won 11 lost 9) and yet we finished in a relegation spot whilst they finished 3rd in the league and just 2pts off top spot! They did win a 'bonus point' in every game they lost though.

Can't say I am missing the bonus point system. What a load of bo**ocks that was!

Crazy season though. So tight. 45% win rate got you relegated. 55% win rate got you 3rd place. 65% win rate won you the league!

For comparison last season 65% wouldn't even have qualified you for the top 4 and the middle 8's!

Doesn't bare thinking about what would have happened to us if we had gone down that season!

Although if Gateshead hadn't signed a load of players mid season that they couldn't afford then we never would have been relegated anyway!

Re: How you doin'? : Thu Apr 28, 2016 7:12 am  

Catching on, this stats. thing, eh Nozzy!

Re: How you doin'? : Thu Apr 28, 2016 9:36 am  

We're up to two out of every ten people who give a toss.

Re: How you doin'? : Thu Apr 28, 2016 8:04 pm  

Alan wrote:

Catching on, this stats. thing, eh Nozzy!

No mention of the brown paper envelopes up in Barra, or does that come under a different stat?

Re: How you doin'? : Fri Apr 29, 2016 7:26 am  

Norman Bates wrote:

No mention of the brown paper envelopes up in Barra, or does that come under a different stat?

To difficult to quantify, Norman. For some strange reason, clubs were reluctant to provide stats. on that topic!

Re: How you doin'? : Fri Apr 29, 2016 10:57 am  

Nozzy wrote:

This thread has lead to me looking back at previous league tables and the 2009 table was mental!



2 teams to be relegated.

Doncaster finished bottom (11th) on 8pts.

Toulouse finished 10th on 30pts, bit of a gap there! Next to bottom but were exempt from relegation because they were... erm... French I guess?

Leigh, Batley and Gateshead all finished on 32pts (we had the worst points difference). Obviously Gateshead's late surge in form was due to them buying a load of Aussies it turned out they didn't actually have any money to pay hence them going down and us being let off the hook.

We were 'relegated' with a record of 9 wins and 11 losses. 45 % win rate isn't great but in no other season would it be anything like relegation form.

Batley actually won less games than us but 2 draws (both against Gateshead) meant they finished level on pts.

Sheffield actually only won 2 more games than us. (We won 9 lost 11, they won 11 lost 9) and yet we finished in a relegation spot whilst they finished 3rd in the league and just 2pts off top spot! They did win a 'bonus point' in every game they lost though.

Can't say I am missing the bonus point system. What a load of bo**ocks that was!

Crazy season though. So tight. 45% win rate got you relegated. 55% win rate got you 3rd place. 65% win rate won you the league!

For comparison last season 65% wouldn't even have qualified you for the top 4 and the middle 8's!

Doesn't bare thinking about what would have happened to us if we had gone down that season!

Although if Gateshead hadn't signed a load of players mid season that they couldn't afford then we never would have been relegated anyway!

Brings back some memories there mate, in hindsight that league tables was probably the closest league table in years...

Re: How you doin'? : Fri Apr 29, 2016 10:58 am  

rlfanalytics wrote: Leigh's start this year shown in red against whilst all Leigh's other seasons (that I have data for) are shown in grey. The intention is to show proportionally how well you're doing this time round compared to others. I've included spells in other leagues too, so previous excursions to Super League are here too. Most of the data for Bradford and London is obviously from SL spells, whilst that for say Swinton and Oldham typically comes from L1. Championship and League 1 data is only from 2006. SL is from '96. All other championship sides available here Great stuff mate

rlfanalytics wrote: Leigh's start this year shown in red against whilst all Leigh's other seasons (that I have data for) are shown in grey. The intention is to show proportionally how well you're doing this time round compared to others. I've included spells in other leagues too, so previous excursions to Super League are here too. Most of the data for Bradford and London is obviously from SL spells, whilst that for say Swinton and Oldham typically comes from L1. Championship and League 1 data is only from 2006. SL is from '96. All other championship sides available here Great stuff mate